![]() I found myself being very quiet this time, staying mostly to myself and observing what was happening around me. And my introvert mode kicked into high gear. After catching up with a couple people, I returned to visit the airbnb from the night before. Back at the hotel, I found assorted friends had come back to the Hilton or gone elsewhere, somewhat underwhelmed by the cramped quarters of the arcade. Thanks to Jonathan Ruiz for coming back with me and helping me cope with the disappointment on the walk back to the hotel. But then I was heartbroken when high winds caused the show to get cancelled, leaving only a much less rewarding Castle light show and snow shooting out over Main Street. ThursdayĪs the event wound down, a lot of people moved on to a Podcast Beyond group meet up at a local arcade but as a lifelong fan of Disney fireworks, I returned in the hopes of catching the night’s festivities. After dinner, she took me back to the hotel and I played a bit more Final Fantasy XV (on the PlayStation 4 I brought to the hotel). Unfortunately, with last last bullet point, we also recognized that for the sake of our wallets and time off requests from work, we’ll be cancelling our initial plans to attend RTX Sydney. We discussed exciting opportunities and plans for 2017. We caught each other up on the exciting happenings of our lives. ![]() We discussed the highlights and lowlights of the past year and spitballed ideas for how we can work to improve community experiences in the future. She has truly become one of my dearest friends and confidantes. Over the last year and a half, we’ve become much more acquainted online and become thick as thieves at events like Kinda Funny Live 2 and Let’s Play Live. We first briefly met at the original Kinda Funny Live but that was almost entirely in passing and we barely spoke to one another. Once checked in and settled in my hotel room, I grabbed a late dinner with Joanna “Joey Noelle” Takegami. In fact, since that includes the time taxi-ing around the runway to and from the gates, I likely spent as much time in the air as I did in my Uber from LAX to the Anaheim Hilton. I’m thankful for Los Angeles-area events because the flight from Phoenix is only about an hour or so. My week in Anaheim began by flying out Wednesday after I got off work. Plus I just haven't quite captured a way of describing everyone's smiles well enough to compete with seeing the real things. If you're looking for more of a TL DR version, I would direct you to some incredible recap videos being put together by my friends Christian Puente ( and Ally Mushka ( I myself will cherish these videos as companion pieces to this mini-novella for the visual reference they provide. What follows is effectively my daily journal of this year's event and my time in and around Anaheim surrounding it. ![]() And this year's PlayStation Experience was the first one I attended as someone who has actually been paid to write about games and entertainment. I started covering events with my now-standard look of nerdy shirt, sport coat, and pixel glasses at last year's event. I met Greg and Colin at the first PlayStation Experience. ![]() It's the first industry event I ever attended and it is directly responsible for leading me down the path I currently walk. PlayStation Experience will always be my "home" show. UPDATE: I realized this morning that I forgot to give this a proper introduction instead of just jumping straight into the week.
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